Question

When did the Indian National Committee for Space Research form?
(A) October 1960
(B) November 1962
(C) October 1962
(D) November 1960

Answer 1

Hint: The Indian Space Research Organisation is the national space organization of the Republic of India, headquartered in Bengaluru. It functions under Department of Space (DoS) which is unambiguously supervised by the Prime Minister of India while chairman of ISRO statutes as administrative of DoS as well.

Complete answer:
The Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) was established by Dr. Vikram Sarabhai in 1962 to articulate the Indian Space Programme. At the time, the group was part of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. The group took over the tasks of the Department of Atomic Energy in space science and study. The then director of the DAE, Dr. Homi Bhabha, was instrumental in the formation of the group. INCOSPAR took the verdict to frame Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) at Thumba on the southern point of India. Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (who later on became the President of India) was among the original squad of rocket technologists starting the INCOSPAR. INCOSPAR was outdated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in 1969.

Thus, option (C) is correct.

Note: Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, India started its own inauguration vehicles due to geopolitical and financial deliberations. In the 1960s–1970s, the nation industrialized a sounding rocket, and by the 1980s, the study had produced the Satellite Launch Vehicle-3 and the more progressive Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle (ASLV), whole with working subsidiary substructure. ISRO further employed its dynamism to the progression of inauguration vehicle technology subsequent in the formation of the fruitful PSLV and GSLV.